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SIMMONS: Why would Mitch Marner walk away from playing with Auston Matthews and Matthew Knies?

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Mitch Marner is an unrestricted free agent and Matthew Knies is a restricted free agent.

The better Knies plays, the more easily you can say so long to Marner .

Matthews, Marner and Knies all can kill penalties and should all score 30 goals or more.

They all, especially Matthews and Marner , can be excellent defensive players.

Matthew Tkachuk needed three years to become a difference-maker.

JT Miller took six years to find his place.

Tom Wilson is playing his best hockey at age 31 .

Imagine being Mitch Marner and choosing to walk away from Matthews and Knies . You never get those decisions back.

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